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"Saturday (Oooh Oooh!)" - Ludacris featuring Sleepy Brown

from the album Word Of Mouf (2001)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #22 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 8

 

Today's song comes from rapper Ludacris, whose album Word Of Mouf had already spun off three top-40 crossover hits on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 with "Area Codes", "Rollout (My Business)", and the Jermaine Dupri collaboration "Welcome To Atlanta" which appeared on both of their records. Three months before the release of the latter, which shot quickly up the charts and was a "hidden track" on his disc, Ludacris put out his proper third single "Saturday (Oooh Oooh!)". The song was written by the rapper (under his real name Chris Bridges) along with the production team Organized Noize, a trio including Ray Murray, Rico Wade, and Patrick "Sleepy" Brown, with the latter getting a label credit for joining in on the chorus. The lyrics are very weed-centric, dissing the other drugs and sprinkling in a little car brand porn and gunplay references. For such a stoned affair it gets a bit aggressive, setting it a little off from his previous singles from the set. But of course the best thing about "Saturday" is the music video, which again has the rapper playing it up amongst the early-90s CGI video tricks, and with the humor MTV got on board, as well as eventually the public and radio...

 

 "Saturday" became the fourth top-40 hit on the Hot 100 from Word Of Mouf in April of 2002, while reaching #10 on both the R&B/Hip Hop Singles and Rap Songs charts. Internationally, the single peaked at #31 in the United Kingdom. 

Ludacris and the album will be back to the series, as well as Sleepy Brown with his own single.

 

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Here's Ludacris and Sleepy Brown performing the song at the BET Awards in 2002...

Up tomorrow: Jingoistic country star writes things down.